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16 years ago

Ethernet performance using TSE in uClinux

Hi all, I am measuring ethernet performance on a NIOS II based board with an Altera TSE IP Core running uClinux, and it's been disappointing so far. I've done timing using TCP and UDP, and bar...
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16 years ago

This already has been discussed here several times. Out of the box, Linux is versatile, but not fast with TCP/IP. NIOS is a quite slow processor. So I don't think that you will achieve much more throughput on such a system without introducing special "router" stuff like the "Zero-Copy Stack" (which needs a special Ethernet driver).

-Michael